Holocaust game publisher, dev: No one has blocked it

Imagination is the Only Escape, an upcoming title created by Luc Bernard which …

Following word that Nintendo was going to be blockingImagination is the Only Escape, the daring Holocaust game currently in development by Luc Bernard, publisher Alten8 has made some clarifications contrary to yesterday's reports. The publisher has stated that the game has not been blocked by Nintendo and is still "in its early stages."

Speaking to Eurogamer, a spokesperson for Alten8 relayed the project's current status. "The status of this game is currently [in] concept / pre-production at this point in time," said the spokesperson. "[Imagination is the Only Escape] is only in its early stages. No one has blocked it, and it has no definitive time scale for release." As for Bernard's practices work in general, the spokesperson had this to say:

Luc [Bernard] is doing most of the artwork for all his game creations and we have not even discussed [IITOE] with Nintendo as of yet - Luc made various blog releases about the game concept and theme that have been picked up by various writers and used extensively, but are based on a few early artwork screens. In general we try to allow anyone we work with to use their creative talents and see no reasons why new type and styles of games and film content should not be tried.

Bernard himself has expressed his own displeasure with the situation on one of his blogs. "The press don't understand anything," he writes. "They have not seen it or played it yet, so well I need to let them time to see it before anything can be discussed. God this is seriously getting out of control." Imagination "has better taste than Call Of Duty and Medal Of Honor, this is the first educational game set during that time."